A DEMOCRAT THAT AGREES WITH A CONSERVATIVE

…The latest New Yorker Magazine Cover says it all about Trump & Past Prez

 

Will  Trump call THE NEW YORKER a “failing magazine” as he did Willian F. Buckley Jr’s. NATIONAL REVIEW ?

 

I never thought the day would come when I would have total agreement with a Washington Post conservative opinion writer on any subject, but that has now happened.

 

The conservative writer, Kathleen Parker wrote a recent column referring to Sarah Palin and Donald Trump in the following way: “…there she was: Sarah Palin standing next to Donald Trump and endorsing him for president.  Like previously co-joined twins who had shared a brain before Dr. Ben Carson separated them, these two anti-everything, post-lamestream media instigators presented themselves as political doppelgangers, a he/she, yin-yang, sis-boom-bah political marriage of the carnival barker and the bearded lady.  Step right up! Get your tickets! Bring the whole family!

 

She even came up with a rhyme for all the Trump supporters to yell in unison:  “Bring your anger, bring your spleen, don’t let logic in-ter-vene!”

 

Wow!!!

 

I didn’t realize that even though I had felt that Ms. Palin was a “few bricks short of a load”, back when the “Wonder Woman from Wasilla” was first introduce to us by Senator John McCain in 2008….so did Ms. Parker.  In her latest column, she related how when back in 2008, Ms. Parker had realized that Palin for VP was “way out of her league”, but Palin’s devout fans just “wouldn’t hear of it”. 

 

Based on her negative comments in 2008 about Palin, Ms. Parker said about 20,000 Post readers “took time out of their busy schedules to send me emails expressing their displeasure”.   Apparently these e-mails were very adamant and entertaining about their feelings for Palin, that Ms. Parker says she is storing them away for reading entertainment and sharing with others when she eventually retires to a nursing home.

 

Basically, one of the areas of agreement between myself and this columnist is that the whole 2008 election “foretold a dumbing-down of the GOP that eight years later may prove irreversible.”

 

Back in 1955, when William F. Buckley Jr. founded the conservative magazine, National Review, I’m sure he never had the vision that in 2016, a whole issue of the magazine would be dedicated to telling all the other conservatives that the current Republican nominee front-runner would be “terrible for conservatism”.

 

As Ms. Parker has noted, “Trump is terrible for conservatism because he isn’t a conservative and [his] populist demagoguery and vulgarity have no place in the party.”

 

Needless to say, adding Ms. Palin to the campaign is just another negative brick-on-the-pile for how most serious, long-term conservatives really feel about both Trump and Palin today.

 

What has been so telling about this recent addition of Sarah Palin to the campaign is that after Ms. Parker had written her 2008 column against Palin, the National Review became so upset, they dropped her syndicated column from the conservative magazine.

 

Here today, the Review is blasting Trump, the same potential presidential nominee that has praised having Ms. Palin’s support.  Yes, this is the same publication that dropped this Op-Ed writer’s column in 2008 because she criticized this same ½ term Alaska Governor….?

 

Now suddenly, the Review’s editors are no longer totally blind to this same former governor’s so called “charms”.  Today they oppose her choice for president in the strongest of terms.  As Ms. Parker asked, “One wonders what took them so long to say [about Trump] what has been plainly obvious for months.”

 

I also wonder what it was that changed the minds of those writers and editors that were so taken with Palin back in 2008?  Was it Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey, and her so apt characterization of the Alaska Governor that could, “See Russia from my house?”

 

As Ms. Parker wrote, “It must be difficult for some of these writers to go out on a limb like this and recognize in Trump what they were unable to see in Palin in 2008.”

 

The unfortunate problem with having Palin joining up with Trump is that the same voters that support Trump today, were probably the same group that supported Palin before and after the 2008 election.  As with Palin’s rousing past stump speeches full of falsehoods and innuendos, Palin now reminds people that Trump is: “the only one who’s got the guts to bring up the issues that need to be spoken about...”

 

In Palin’s endorsement of Trump, she immediately brought back the memories of how she communicated with the voters of the past with her unique verbal “word-salad” style.  This time Palin identified with her audiences saying they all were: “….right- wingin’, bitter- clingin’, proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religions, and our Constitution.”

 

What is disturbing is that over the years, Palin has become even more shrill and demanding about what she really feels and what she expects from her supporters.  This became evident when she virtually screamed, . “[Are] You ready for a commander in chief . . . who will let our warriors do their job and go kick ISIS ass?”

 

She then not only has blamed President Obama for personally not doing enough to help the Vets that have PTSD, she then described Obama’s foreign policy saying: “We Americans apologize, and then, we bend over and say, ‘Thank you, enemy.’ ”

 

So for what is today called the Republican Party, what we can now expect from Donald Trump per Ms. Parker is: “a bombastic, bellicose, self-aggrandizing, mean-streaked, golf-cheating, bullying narcissist [presidential nominee] without plans or policies beyond his own, no doubt fickle, fantasies.”

 

It is bad enough that at one time, John McCain decided to make a less than qualified, “Caribou Barbie Palin”, who is narcissistic and pathological, he had designated her the 2^nd in command of the most powerful nation, should he have won the election.  When you look at the current Republican front-runner, the circumstances are almost “Déjà vu all over again”.  As a political leader, Donald Trump is as unqualified and un-vetted a candidate, as was Sarah Palin in 2008.

 

Ms. Parker was right when she said that with Trump and Palin on the stump, “William F. Buckley’s conservatism seems headed for the door, and National Review of the past deserves plenty of blame. There is, alas, no one left to stand athwart history and yell, stop!”

 

Can’t say I disagree with this conservative opinion writer.

 

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